Începuturile Societăţii de Istorie şi Arheologie a Comitatului Hunedoara
Beginnings of the Historical and Archaeological Society of Hunedoara County

Summary/Abstract: After the appeal published in 1879 in the newspaper Hunyad by Sólyom-Fekete Ferencz, the president of the Law Court of Deva, on the 13th of May 1880 took place the general assembly for the formation of the Historical and Archaeological Society of Hunedoara County. Within this framework it was approved the status of the Society and it was chosen its leadership, Kuun Géza becoming the president. The status, with small changes, claimed by the Internal Minister, entered into force on 8 December 1880.In this article we presented the first three years of working of the society, when organizational efforts are made, being established the directions for the next decades. They were approved the rules of operation of the Steering Committee, its divisions were set, the first artifacts were recorded in the inventories of the museum (their list was already sent in June 1881 towards the National Museum of Budapest, according to the status). The artifacts were obtained by donations, acquisitions, archaeological diggings. It was obtained the first seat for the museum (even if temporarily), the archaeological research began at Sarmizegetusa, numerous papers took place, the first number of the Society’s year-book appeared in 1882 and, in 1883, were made some changes in the status. We can say that, at the end of this period, the Society was well known inside the cultural and scientific world of that time.

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